live sound by Matthew Kettle & mixed and mastered by Bill Skibbe, Third Man Mastering, Nashville Read more about this show at nugs.net/blog
With a warm "Hello Norway! My name is Jack, and this is my big sister Meg on the drums, from Southwest Detroit, and we think you're pretty good looking!" the surprises continue. This show gets the first live performance of "Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine", played as if it had been in the set for years. "Mr Cellophane" again gets an airing, with a second verse added. "Ball and Biscuit" again gets the quote from "Smokestack Lightning", with a third person switch-up in the lyrics with “Jack White’s strength is ten fold!” "Hotel Yorba" also gets a unique reference to a “dirty old road in Grand Rapids Michigan!”. Meg had a cold during this run of shows, and just makes it to the last lines of "In the Cold Cold Night" before giving a polite apology "you'll have to forgive my cold!" Adding to just how intimate this gig is, this may be the only show to end the main set with “We’re Going to Be Friends”, complete with Jack asking the crowd “Are we friends yet Norway?" before joking "How about that Meg? You thought you didn’t have any friends!”. Matching this warmth is a good bit of chaos. Listen to "Death Letter" going full self-destruct into a storm of out of tune feedback, Jack going full scream battling the Airline at the end of "One More Cup of Coffee" - making it one of the best live renditions of the song, and "Cannon" getting an insertion of "St. James Infirmary" with a fantastic extended guitar solo section before going straight into "Boll Weevil" to close out yet another excellent show.
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